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Save for the brilliant 2003 single "Find a Way," feathery Detroit crooner Dwele is mostly known as an R&B supplicant on rap hits like Kanye West's "Flashing Lights" and Common's "The People." But even if his third album doesn't become a long-overdue breakout, he still triumphs modestly on this collection of tracks glowing with intelligent warmth.

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Alfred "Daedelus" Darlington is a proponent of Edwardian dandyism for the Internet age, and his electronic whimsy has been influenced equally by Coldcut's chopped-up beats and Bernard Herrmann's orchestral Vertigo. But on Love to Make Music To, the L.A.

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Michael "Killer Mike" Render follows a long tradition of fiery street rappers with Black Panther complexes. Best known for raining hardcore rhymes on OutKast's otherwise cheery hit "The Whole World," the bellicose Atlanta MC unveils a violent worldview on I Pledge Allegiance to the Grind II.

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This collaboration with producer 9th Wonder has been floating around in bootleg form since 2004, making its official release a bit anticlimactic. But the sweet-and-sour lyricism on the New York indie-rap queen's fourth album still sounds remarkably vibrant.

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Are you stuck in a "booby trap"? Would you rather have a "digi snack"?

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It's impossible to divorce Steven Ellison, a.k.a. Flying Lotus, from his native los Angeles, home to a wildly creative underground hiphop scene of singular artists who hybridize sounds beyond classification -- Daedelus, Madlib, Georgia Anne Muldrow, and in his final years, the late J Dilla.